Shirts Off Their Backs

Volunteers Strip For Homeless Pets - KSATTwelve volunteers of the Bulverde Humane Society have taken a daring move and are literally giving the shirts off their backs to raise money for homeless animals.
The women have posed topless in a 2010 calendar that is described as not only the first of its kind in Bulverde, but possibility in the whole state of Texas.

The KSAT link features video of the story, and includes some images from the calendar itself. I don't see anything about it on the Bulverde Humane Society page, but then it was last year. See also My San Antonio, WMTW, YouTube.

Dare to Bare Because We Care

Telegraph | Namibian Women "Dare to Bare Because We Care" for Animal Welfare
Desperate to raise funds for the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), 12 mostly middle-aged Namibian pet lovers bared it all with furry models from an animal shelter -- though most of these animals were since lucky enough to be adopted.
What started as a joke, with an ambitious print run of 2,000 copies at 300 Namibian dollars each (40 US dollars, 28 euros), became a money-maker in the Christmas shopping fever.

And another [Dare to] Bare Because We Care. As of mid-2010 they still had some left and had dropped the price to 100 dollars Namibian. I'm sure they're all gone by now, so I'm hoping for a happy ending. See also Facebook and the Windhoek SPCA.

Saanich Firefighters

Victoria Times Colonist | Behind the scenes at the firefighters' calendarFunds from sales of the calendar will go toward the Saanich Fire Charitable Foundation, which raised more than $100,000 for local charities last year through various events. The events included community runs to help burn victims, building a Little League clubhouse and an NHL old-timers hockey game which raised one of the biggest single donations to the Mustard Seed food bank yet.

They've done calendars previously, in 2010, 2009 and 2006: The photo is from the 2009 calendar. When 2010 goes on sale, it should be available here.

It gives me a warm feeling to see any organization continue the tradition over multiple years. It means everyone involved is having fun.

Air Comet

Spanish babes strip for wages | The Sun |NewsAIR stewardesses grounded by a British judge have stripped off for a saucy calendar in a bid to get back missing wages.
Spanish-based budget airline Air Comet went bust last December after the High Court in London ordered the company to stop using its planes and selling tickets.
Stewardesses employed by the firm decided on their naked protest after failing to get up to eight months of unpaid salaries.
More than 1,000 calendars featuring nine women in their flight caps, gloves and high heels have gone on sale for £13.

Not exactly a charity, but close enough...
See also the Daily Mail, Euro Weekly... -- heck, just do a Google search for Air Comet Calendar and you'll see dozens.

Men in Hats

Northumbrian Water - Hats off to calendar boys!Cheeky chappies from a local water company have stripped off for a worthy cause.
Twelve Northumbrian Water workers from around the region have bared all for a charity calendar, with only a selection of strategically-placed props to preserve their modesty!
Five hundred copies of the 'Men in Hats' 2010 calendar, priced at £3 each, have been produced to raise £1,500 for Samaritans Durham, which offers 24 hour emotional support for anyone experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which may lead to suicide.

See Northumbrian Water for (dated) purchase information. Or just see the Independent.

Cantabria schools

Teachers pose naked for calendar in aid of Peruvian children

CALENDAR girls from Cantabria schools have raised enough funds to send four indigenous Peruvian children to university.

A group of female teachers from the northern region have posed naked – but with their modesty carefully covered up by their hands and other props – for a 2010 calendar as part of their charitable efforts.

Plenty of opportunities to see more of the images -- try MDZ or ThinkSpain -- but if the calendar has an official page it's beyond my limited grasp of Spanish to find.

North Devon Young Farmers’ Clubs

A group of young female farmers from North Devon have posed in nothing but their wellies for a Calendar Girls-style photo shoot for charity.
The 11 girls, who are all members of Young Farmers' Clubs (YFC) in North Devon, stripped off for the 2010 Cancer Research UK calendar.
They are hoping to raise £2,000 in sales from the calendar and are pictured doing farmyard chores - from milking cows and dressing horses to firing shotguns.
The project was the brainchild of 18-year-old YFC member Hayley Cooper.

That's her in the photo. I think it was the pink wellies that sold me.

Read more in the Daily Mail or the Sun.

SWAGs 2010

Their other halves are busy dealing with military assaults. But for these SWAGs - Service Wives And Girlfriends - it's more about full-frontal assaults.
With only strategically placed guns and tanks to spare their blushes, these charity calendar shots have helped raise £26,000 for injured servicemen and women wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq.
A total of 50 volunteers, all wives and girlfriends of men from the three Armed Services, stripped off to be photographed at bases and training centres in Hampshire. But their modesty was preserved by carefully placed pieces of military equipment.

Read it in the Daily Mail. Also see the official site, SWAGs 2010 Charity Calendar. (They've sold out of 2010, they didn't do a 2011 edition, and 2012 is too soon to say.) And it's all in aid of Help for Heroes.

Pin-up for Heroes

The idea was simple: To create a calendar recreating the stylish pinup girls of the 1940’s and 50’s using a mixture of professional and amateur models, with all services being given for free and all proceeds going straight to Help For Heroes. The calendar would be stylish, glamorous and tasteful, appealing to all, young and old, male and female.

The 2011 Calendar raised over £4,000 for Help for Heroes. Apparently there are still limited quantities available at Pin-up for Heroes. And there are links to the first edition in 2010.

This group won't be producing a 2012 edition, but see Cheeky Calendar Girls.

Unforgettable Shetland

It’s a daring fundraising mission which has become the talk of an entire Scottish island.

Locals on Shetland have been persuaded to strip off for a nude calendar, which is being sold to raise funds for a new cancer support centre.

But the identities of the models are being kept a closely guarded secret, sparking speculation over who has dared to bare all. [Daily Express.]

In this interesting twist, the models' faces are not visible because they are turned away from the camera or seen in silhouette (see Shetlopedia). See more at the Daily Record and BBC News. The calendars were ten pounds each, but the official site is no longer taking orders.

Pin-Up Boys of Atlantic Shores

What brings together a group of semi-clad senior gentlemen, a city mayor, and Neptune - God of the Sea? The unveiling of one of the country's most hilarious and titillating charity fundraising calendars.

A new twist on pin-up girls, these calendar guys, ranging in age from 69 to 90, recently shed their inhibitions to bare it all (behind strategically placed props) for a 2010 "nearly nude" calendar, with sales benefiting their local Volunteer Rescue Squad.

Buy it at www.atlanticshores.com. Read more at Reuters.

Colorado Firefighters

Patrick Kramer knows he is going to take a lot of razzing from fellow firefighters when the 2010 Colorado Firefighter Calendar is debuted today.

Kramer, a firefighter engineer who appears in the calendar shirtless and hanging off the side of a train, said he’ll put up with the teasing in exchange for helping a charity.

The calendar is produced by Fired Up for Kids, a nonprofit that donates proceeds from calendar sales to The Children’s Hospital Burn Center.

Buy it from Fired Up For Kids: read more about it at the Longmont Times-Call.

CF Mums

The calendar benefits the CF Trust: Buy it here, read more about it in This Is Bristol.

Asian Pacific Male

On Tuesday, September 1, APHCV [Asian Pacific Health Care Venture] unveiled the APM (Asian Pacific Male) 2010 calendar, which features 12 Asian American men in various degrees of semi-undress with each model representing a month of the year. Profits from the sale of the calendars will go to APHCV.

The APM 2010 calendars are $15 each and are available at the APHCV clinic in East Hollywood, Amazon.com and other outlets.

For more details see the Asian Journal.

Jo's Trust

A group of Jo’s Trust supporters have stripped off on bales of hay at a farm in Ilkeston, wore nothing more than football scarves at the Nottingham Forest ground and posed like hippies in a daisy field in Melton Mowbray – all to raise money for Jo's Trust by producing a calendar.

The 2010 calendar costs £6 (all proceeds go to Jo's Trust) and can be ordered by emailing: klmarshall@btinternet.com or starflowerlips@yahoo.co.uk.

Alternatively, you can order online by clicking here. In order to receive your calendar you MUST type the following in the event box: JT Calendar 2010.

Read more at This Is Nottingham. See also the Facebook Group.

Tantalising take-offs 2010

Norfolk Gliding Club 2010 Calendar - 12 months of 'Tantalising take-offs!

A fantastic, glossy, A3 landscape calendar by the Norfolk Gliding Club, depicting stunning aircraft with smoldering curves - Next years must-have!

I can't find any charity listed, but I'm going to assume it benefits the gliding club itself. It's just so gosh-darned cute that I can't resist it.

Buy it here. The site even does conversions between pounds, euros and dollars.

Oxford Undressed

A group of daredevil scholars agreed to pose for a saucy naked calendar to raise money for poverty-stricken third world countries.

These brainy undergraduates at Oxford University seem have to mislaid their gowns…and all the rest of their clothing.

Around 60 students took part in the calendar in aid of Oxford-based charity TravelAid.

Comes in academic year 2009-2010 or calendar year 2010, £10.00 each. Buy it here. More information and photos from the Sun, the Daily Mail, Momento24, ABC News, SmasHits... Well, all over, actually. I mean, this is Oxford.

Knitting Noras

KNITTING might have a sober image — but the Knitting Noras prove there is a surprising amount of fun to be had with a pair of needles.

The group’s members have been photographed in the act of “extreme knitting”, and now they are posing naked for a calendar to raise money for The Christie cancer trust.

It's far too early in the process for purchase information, but read about it in the Bolton News, and at their Naked Knitting Calendar 2010 blog.

Chubby Mikey

A man from the United States, who weighs 38 stone [532 lb] and calls himself Chubby Mikey, has posed for a naked calendar.

The 29-year-old has his own website where he appears in nude and semi-nude positions and he's even posed for these pics to become a calendar boy.

"I feel sexy and attractive so that's the way I act," said Mikey, from Memphis, in the US.

Read about it in the Telegraph: Buy it at ChubbyMikey.com -- maybe. The article says "I actually had to refund orders because my supplies were depleted", but I don't know if that means he's actually sold out.